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Subject: Sources of Meteorological Data FAQ Part 1/2 Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology,news.answers,sci.answers From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) Date: 10 May 1994 11:00:13 GMT Archive-name: weather/data/part1 Last-modified: 9 May 1994 Recent changes: ==within last two weeks== Added rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu WWW site for climate data Added GOES-8 images to gopher.ssec.wisc.edu site information ==within last four weeks== Changed "Introduction" section to "Overview" to fit better with html version Changed "Special event images" to "...information", and added "Text" category Added pointer to www.ngdc.noaa.gov Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary Added www.atmos.uiuc.edu, the U of I "The Daily Planet" WWW server Added thunder.atms.purdue.edu WWW site for the Purdue Weather Processor Added jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov ftp site for Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) ozone data Added ccg.cmdl.erl.gov ftp site for NOAA/CMDL carbon dioxide and methane data Added sci-ed.fit.edu WWW pointer site Added graupel.mit.edu WWW radar lab site This is a guide to Internet sources of meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical data. Contents: 1) Overview 2) How to get a current copy of this document 3) How to use this document 4) Topic Index 5) List of sites 6) How to use the data retrieval methods Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the subject title above to find the section quickly. --------------- Subject: Overview This is part 1 of a guide to various sources of meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical data. Some of these data sets are intended for enjoyment or hobbyist use; other data are more research-oriented. Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over the network; usually, only information about this data is available, and you must place an order for the actual data. The contents of this series of FAQs are: Part 1: Meteorological data available via the Internet Part 2: Meteorological data available via tape, CD-ROM, and other media The section on mailing lists which used to be included in this FAQ is now a separate FAQ, "Mailing lists and newsgroups for meteorology". This article is copyright (c) 1993 by Ilana Stern. It may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not removed. The information in this article is provided as-is, with no warranties or assurances as to its accuracy. I prefer that archives maintain current copies, since this information changes rapidly. If you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email. Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at ilana@ncar.ucar.edu. Please include in your message where you read this document. Note that if I know about it, it's in this document. --------------- Subject: How to get a current copy of this document If you are reading this document after 24 May 1994, you are reading an outdated copy. A current copy can be obtained by anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu, from the file weather/data/part1 in the directory /pub/usenet/news.answers. These files are updated every two weeks, when a new copy is posted to sci.geo.meteorology, news.answers, and sci.answers. This document also appears on the mailing lists CLIMLIST and met-stud, which are described in the FAQ, "Mailing Lists for Meteorology". If you can't use FTP, send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with send /pub/usenet/news.answers/weather/data/part1 as the only text in the message (leave the subject blank). Other sources for this document: ftp://vmd.cso.uiuc.edu/wx/sources.doc http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/weather/top.html (in somewhat hypertext form!) --------------- Subject: How to use this document As the amount of information available over the networks has been increasing, so have the methods by which this information can be obtained. No longer is direct usage of FTP the only, or even the most frequent, method of obtaining data; we now have Gopher, Wais, and WWW, as well as many site-specific interfaces. Because the information itself may be accessible in many different ways, this FAQ will identify resources in terms of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). This will also help convert this FAQ to a hypertext document, so that it can be used with a WWW browser to go directly to any of the listed sources. Here's a glossary, so you can decode the URLs if necessary to reach the sites: ftp://host.name.domain/directory/[filename] ftp site http://host.name.domain/directory/[filename] www server telnet://host.name.domain telnet site gopher://host.name.domain gopher server wais://host.name.domain wais server news:newsgroup.name newsgroup So, for example, if a document is available at ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/ it means that you should ftp to ncardata.ucar.edu, and the information is in the top-level directory. If you don't know what these information retrieval methods are, see the section "How to use the data retrieval methods". --------------- Subject: Topic Index 1) Current weather (satellite images) 2) Current weather and forecasts (maps, radar, soundings) 3) Current weather and forecasts (text) 4) Special event information (may be transient) 5) Other images 6) Map data 7) Research data and metadata 8) Software 9) Pointers to other resources This section lists the names and access protocol of sites of interest, with a brief blurb as to their contents. See section 5 for more information about these sites. Some sites appear more than once under different subject headings. Some sites have identical contents; please use the site closest to you. 1. Current weather (satellite images) a) North America b) Europe c) Pacific d) Other a. North America a1. Hourly GOES visible and IR (last few days) ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/ ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/ ftp://wx.research.att.com/wx/ gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/ gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/images/ http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/satimg.html afs://afs/athena.mit.edu/project/weather a2. Daily full-disk GOES ftp://westsat.com/pub/images gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu:70/11/gsdc.d/ a3. Image archives (older images) gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/ ftp://westsat.com/pub/images gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/11/Images/GOES/ gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/11/Images/AVHRR/ a4. Other ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/ GOES vis/IR images of North, Central America ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/photos/ GOES-7, NOAA-series images of central and eastern Canada (non-current) ftp://uriacc.uri.edu/davet.195/ (VMS) NOAA-11 images of the northeast US ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/ Visible and IR images of the US ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu/pub/weathergifs/ Visible and IR images of the US ftp://rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca/pub/sat_images/ NOAA-11/12 mosaic images of North America ftp://photo1.si.edu//More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.gif/ NOAA and other satellite images ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub/jpg NOAA-10 and -11 AVHRR images of the US, Alaska and Canada false color composite of bands 1,3&4 in JPEG format gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps/ Visible and IR over North America gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/photos/ GOES-7, NOAA-series images of central and eastern Canada (non-current) gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Images US IR and vis GIF images gopher://meteor.atms.purdue.edu/ GOES vis, IR, composites, enhanced images over US and Indiana gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/images/ GOES 1.1 km vis images of Tallahassee, Orlando, Florida gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/ GOES vis, IR images of North America, western US, eastern US, plus floater wais://quake.think.com:210/weather/ Searchable weather index containing satellite maps http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/ GOES vis, IR, composites, enhanced images over US and Indiana http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/satimg.html GOES vis and IR over North America, MPEG animations http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ GOES visible and IR images over North America b. Europe ftp://cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk/ Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe ftp://ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ NOAA AVHRR images of Europe ftp://liasun3.epfl.ch Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au Full-disk GMS vis/IR images ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe, Africa in gif format http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/bilder/Met4.jpg Latest Meteosat vis/IR image of Europe, Africa in jpeg format http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ NOAA AVHRR images of Europe gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps UK, Europe, Scandinavian visible and IR gopher://gopher.uni-bayreuth.de:70/11/Service/Meteosat/ Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe gopher://cognac-f.epfl.ch:70/11/Divers/meteo/ Images of Europe http://web.nexor.co.uk/places/satelite.html/ IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format telnet://cspnsv.csp.it:5000/ Meteosat images c. Pacific ftp://boa.gsfc.nasa.gov/Weather/gms/ (for use by east America, Europe) Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf ftp://ftp.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/ GMS-4 images of Australia, TOGA/COARE area ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/Weather/ (for use by west America) Full-disk GMS-4 vis/IR hourly images, GOES-7 half-hourly, in gif and hdf ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/Weather (for use by Australia, NZ, Asia) Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf ftp://westsat.com/pub/images/ Full-disk GOES images of Pacific ftp://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/data/noaa/ Quick-look HRPT images of Japan, Pacific in pgm format ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/ 5-channel and SST data from AVHRR on NOAA-11, NOAA-12, full-disk and TOGA/COARE GMS-4 vis/IR hourly ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu/ Images of Australia, TOGA/COARE area in gif format gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/11/Australian%20Weather%20Information/Images Images of Australia gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/ GMS and NOAA images of Japan and Pacific gopher://nippori.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ Quick-look NOAA jpg images of Pacific -- archive back to November 1992 http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf format http://life.anu.edu.au:80/weather.html Various images & forecasts for Australia, world d. Other gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu/70/ Antarctic composite images, worldwide composite http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ Antarctic composite images, worldwide composite ftp://photo1.si.edu//More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.gif/ Images from various satellites 2. Current weather and forecasts (maps, radar, soundings) a. US maps: 6-panel, UA, surface ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/ ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/ ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/ b. Other ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/maps/ Canadian weather map (in French or English) (not current) ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/ Surface analyses, radar summaries, soundings for various locations ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/ Surface analyses, radar summaries, meteorgrams, skewT for various locations telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/ Surface T, SLP, radar, wind, surface data for US and S.E. US (using WXP) gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/ Surface & upper air analyses, forecasts, meteorgrams for Vermont, N.E. US gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/maps/ Canadian weather map (in French or English) (not current) gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Images Current Asian, European, South American temperatures and precipitation gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/1mcidas.70 Southeast US skew-T, meteorgrams, mesoscale analyses, upper-air plots gopher://meteor.atms.purdue.edu/ Surface & upper air analyses, forecast model output, radar, skewT, meteorgrams for US states gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/ Radar summaries, upper air plots, soundings, for US states; surface plots for US states, Canada, Caribbean gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/ Four-panel US maps from forecast models, meteorgrams, forecasts for US states, regional surface maps, radar gopher://unidata.ucar.edu:70/11/Images/ Surface analyses, radar summaries, meteorgrams, skewT for various locations gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/11/ Forecast model output (ECMWF, NMC), Oswego lake effect model output images gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/ Six-panel US maps (various variables), UA and surface maps (US, Canada) http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ Six-panel US maps (various weather variables), radar maps http://aristarchus.rutgers.edu/weather.html Weather map with radar (US) (updated every 20 minutes!): http://cs.indiana.edu/weather/panels.html Six-panel US maps http://cs.indiana.edu/weather/surface.html Current surface weather map http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/ Surface & upper air analyses, forecast model output, radar, skewT, meteorgrams for US states http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/top.html Surface and upper air analyses, 6-panel maps, soundings, forecast model output for US and US regions http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/ Surface analysis for US, plus forecasts 3. Current weather and forecasts (text) A. Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, ski conds, severe wx) B. Other North American forecasts C. Forecasts elsewhere a. Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, ski conds, severe wx) gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Text telnet://downwind.sprl.umich.edu:3000/ telnet://hermes.merit.edu/ telnet://measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu:3000/ telnet://vortex.weather.brockport.edu:3000/ telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/ b. Other North American forecasts ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/ Some US city and Oregon weather forecasts ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/pub/weather/ Colorado weather forecasts telnet://duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com Aviation weather telnet://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu Observations and forecasts for US gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/ Forecasts and summaries for US as whole, N.E. US gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/ Current weather and forecasts for US, Canada gopher://gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov/ River stage forecasts for Arkansas-Red River Basin (central US) gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/ Many National Weather Service products for Southeast US gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/weather Florida weather and forecasts gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/ Observations and forecasts for south central US states gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca/ Canadian forecasts gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/ Current weather at SUNY brockport, US forecasts gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/ Current weather and forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/ Current weather and forecast for Lansing, MI http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/ Current weather and forecasts for US cities c. Forecasts elsewhere telnet://vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au:55555/ Australian weather observations and forecasts gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/11/Australian%20Weather%20Information Australian weather summaries, forecasts, warnings gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/ Japan weather forecasts (in Kanji) gopher://tortel.dcc.uchile.cl:70/ Chilean weather forecasts (in Spanish) http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/deutsch/meldungen.html Berlin weather (in German) 4. Special event information (may be transient) A. Still images B. Movies C. Text a. Still images ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/ Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/ Hurricane Andrew and Emily images ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.andrew Hurricane Andrew images and weather maps ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.emily Hurricane Emily images and weather maps ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/hurricane_Andrew Hurricane Andrew images ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/ "Blizzard of 93", midwest flood, Malibu fires smoke plume jpeg images ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/gumley/ Midwest flood images ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/spectactular Hurricane Fernanda images gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Archives/ Blizzard of 93, hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Emily, Elena; tornado paths gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/Hurricane%20Emily/ Hurricane Emily track (gif and ps) and image gopher://unidata.ucar.edu:70/11/Images/ Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/weather.html California fires, hurricane Emily track b. Movies ftp://earthsun.umd.edu/JEI/GOES "Blizzard of 93" movie in .flc format ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/pub/info-mac/art/qt/ Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93" http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/weather.html Hurricane Emily movies (mpg) c. Text ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP/SERVICES/WEEKLY/TCYCLONE Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/cac CAC ENSO advisories and indices, monthly mean and anomaly fields gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/climate/nino/ CAC ENSO advisories and indices (CMAF climate monitoring) www://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/weekly.html Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary 5. Other images ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/SPACE/CDROM/ Various earth-from-space images ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/cdrom/ Viking, Magellan, Voyager images from CD-ROMs ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/ Snow cover maps of US derived from GOES and AVHRR ftp://sseop.jsc.nasa.gov/ Pictures taken from the space shuttle in bitmap format gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Archives/Clouds/ Images of Whole earth, various types of clouds telnet://sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu/ AVHRR images of USA 6. Map data ftp://csn.org/COGS/ Mapping software and datasets ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/ Elevation data ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/ Various USGS data gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/apl-us Shaded relief map of USA generated from ETOPO5 dataset http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/apl-us/ Shaded relief map of USA generated from ETOPO5 dataset http://www.ucar.edu/metapage.html Elevation data (choose "Research data" and then look at geophysical data) 7. Research data and metadata a) Primary data centers b) Other sites a. Primary data centers ftp://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pub Data and information from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/ NGDC datasets, CD-ROM information ftp://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/inventories/ Info on datasets available from NCDC ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/ Info on datasets available from NCAR, some small datasets directly available ftp://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Info on NSSDC datasets and global change data telnet://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov Info on datasets available from EOSDIS (login "ims", password "larcims") telnet://esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov Info on datasets, satellites, sensors (login "NOAADIR") telnet://glis.cr.usgs.gov Info on datasets available from USGS telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov Info on datasets available from NCDC (login "storm", password "research") telnet://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov Info on NSSDC datasets, and Global Change Master Directory (login "NSSDC") gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov/ NGDC datasets, CD-ROM information gopher://esdim2.nodc.noaa.gov/ Connections to various government agencies: NOAA, NIST, EPA, DOE, etc. wais://ridgisd.er.usgs.gov DOE_Climate_Data.src: Contains info about climate data sets http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), info about datasets http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html Info about, and sample data from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program http://www.ucar.edu/metapage.html National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), info and small datasets http://info.er.usgs.gov/ United States Geological Survey (USGS) http://noaacdc.colorado.edu/cdc/cdc_home.html Info on data available from NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center http://starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov/pds_home.html Info and data from NASA planetary missions and experiments b. Other sites ftp://aprf.arl.army.mil/pub/profiles/ Real-time wind and temperature profiles from White Sands, NM, USA ftp://ccg.cmdl.erl.gov/pub/ Carbon dioxide and methane observations from cooperative network ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/climate/nino/ CAC ENSO advisories and indices ftp://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/blizzard Data from East coast blizzard ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/nimbus7 Nimbus-7 TOMS ozone data (not publication quality) ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/meteor3 Meteor-3 TOMS ozone data (not publication quality) ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/ East coast tidal heights and winds ftp://downdry.atmos.colostate.edu/ Atlantic basin tropical cyclone track data ftp://nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov/ Cloud, SST, surface T, vegetation data ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/cac CAC ENSO advisories and indices, monthly mean and anomaly fields ftp://srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov/hcdn92/ Streamflow data from USGS telnet://kuda.atd.ucar.edu Kuwait oil fire (1991) data from NCAR (login "kuda", password "science") telnet://storm.ofps.ucar.edu STORM-FEST data, link to NCDC (login "storm", password "research") gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/climate/nino/ CAC ENSO advisories and indices (CMAF climate monitoring) gopher://diu.cms.udel.edu/ Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data gopher://nx1.soils.umn.edu:70/ U. Minnesota Soil Science Department/Climatology Working Group http://diu.cms.udel.edu/ Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data http://graupel.mit.edu/Radar_Lab.html Information about MIT radar lab, and data archive metadata http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/ Climate datasets, bibliographies, ENSO forecast http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu:80/toga_atlas/ Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and Adjacent Regions wais://ridgisd.er.usgs.gov/ NOAA_National_Environmental_Referral_Service.src 8. Software ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans Various oceanography-related Matlab stuff ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/ NORAD (TLE) for NOAA sats, tide code ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/Tides/ Tide code (shareware) for IBM-PC compatible ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/wiscombe/ Mie code, discrete ordinate code, thermo code ftp://cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk/calmet/ Software for computer-aided learning (CALMET) ftp://ftp.erc.msstate.edu/pub/griblib.tar.Z GRIB decode in C ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/ Data analysis software ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ Code and format description for HDF ftp://ftpnssl.nssl.uoknor.edu/pub/skaggs Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program ftp://hydro.princeton.edu/stamm/energy.budget/ Software for insolation, energy budget ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/datasets/ds111.2/software GRIB decode in Fortran gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/ Air pollution model software, other? 9) Pointers to other resources ftp://csn.org/COGS/internet.resources.earth.sci Information on other Internet resources ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/docs/ Internet resource info gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/ Resources for curriculum materials http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html NASA system-wide WWW server (choose LARC server for more resources) http://info.er.usgs.gov/network/index.html Hypertext network resources for science (assembled by USGS) http://life.anu.edu.au:80/weather.html Various images & forecasts for Australia, world; also other resources http://sci-ed.fit.edu/wx.html Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/ A variety of resources for the atmospheric science community http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/DataSources/MetIndex.html Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/climateinfo.html Pointers to oceanography, meteorological, general physical science resources http://zia.geog.buffalo.edu/GIAL/netgeog.html Hypertext resource information, mostly for geography Subject: List of sites This section provides expanded listings of the sites in the previous section. Remember to set the transfer type to "binary" when retrieving images! acoustics.whoi.edu (FTP) Rich Pawlowicz's Matlab oceanography toolbox. Includes equations for physical properties of seawater, some geographical functions, and plotting routines. For use with Matlab 4.1. (rich@boreas.whoi.edu) ageninfo.tamu.edu (Gopher, WWW) Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University server. Contains Digital Relief Map of USA based on ETOPO5, and other resources. ames.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.18.3] (FTP) The SPACE directory has been moved to explorer.arc.nasa.gov. apollo.lsc.vsc.edu 70 (Gopher) (LYNDON STATE COLLEGE, VT/Department of Meteorology) Text products and McIdas weather images, including surface plots of the Northeast, meteograms and skew-T plots of ALB, PWM, and BTV, US satellite imagery, NGM forecast data, upper-air plots, and more. aprf.arl.army.mil [155.148.12.200] (FTP) Real-time, hour-averaged, qc'd, surface to stratosphere profiles of wind, temperature, and optical/radar turbulence from the Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility, White Sands, New Mexico. Change directory to "/pub/profiler". Data is available in tabular format in the subdirectory "hourly-profiles" and in graphical format in the subdirectory "hourly-profiles/images". For further information, see the README, or e-mail to: wayne@aprf.arl.army.mil or jhines@arl.army.mil. archive.afit.af.mil (FTP) NORAD "Two-line Element"(TLE) data for the NOAA satellites series in directory "pub/space". Also, TIDES216.zip tide calc shareware. aristarchus.rutgers.edu (WWW) US Weather map with radar. (Currently doesn't appear to be active.) ashpool.micro.umn.edu (Gopher) (National Weather Service Forecasts) Weather forecasts by state. atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu [128.186.3.39] (FTP) East coast tidal heights and winds in "pub/Tidedata", QuickBasic IBM-PC shareware to compute tides and currents in "pub/Tides", Luyten & Stommel oceanographic atlas in "pub/LiveAtlas", and other related items. For information contact sturges@atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu. athena.mit.edu (AFS) (/afs/sites/athena.mit.edu/project/weather) Contains images from wx.atmos.uiuc.edu in various subdirectories (SATELLITE, SURFACE, etc.). The most recent images are flagged with the name 'latest' so you can easily find them. There's also an animation program. Contact ericldab@athena.mit.edu for more info. ats.orst.edu [128.193.120.19] (FTP) GOES IR and VIS images over North and Central America, plus a "floater" image which "could be anything." Also Oregon and US city forecasts. babel.ho.bom.gov.au (Gopher) Satellite images of Australia, and text weather forecasts and warnings for all states and territories. Includes connections to other weather resources. boa.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.93.16] (FTP) Same GMS images as explorer.arc.nasa.gov; this site should be used by East Coast and European sites. ccg.cmdl.erl.gov (FTP) NOAA/CMDL flask monitoring network for carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) atmospheric concentrations. Data is from many monitoring sites. Also in-situ continuous CO2 data from CMDL observatories. Change directory to /pub/co2 or /pub/ch4. cdiac.esd.ornl.gov [128.219.24.36] (FTP) Contains data and information on general and technical aspects of carbon dioxide, methane, and other trace gas emissions; the carbon cycle; and other climate-change topics from CDIAC (the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, address in section 3). The data for CDIAC's "Trends 91: A Compendium of Data on Global Change" is also available here. (Contact CDIAC at cdp@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov to obtain a copy of the book.) climate.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.46.16] (FTP) The directory "pub/wiscombe" contains various software of interest in several subdirectories, including Mie code by Warren Wiscombe, discrete ordinates radiative transfer code, and atmospheric thermodynamics code. Also, cloud-free images of midwest flooding in directory "pub/gumley". cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca [142.97.22.42] (Gopher, FTP) (Ontario Climate Gopher) Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) site containing CAC (Climate Analysis Center) ENSO advisories updated monthly (between the 10th and 15th), and CAC ENSO indices in the directory "climate/nino". Also has (non-current) Canadian weather maps, satellite photos (mostly Ontario and eastern Canada), and forecasts (mostly Ontario); hopefully, these will be updated in the future. csn.org [128.138.213.21] (FTP) Change directory to "COGS". A large file containing detailed information on FTP sites, Bitnet and Usenet discussion groups, and data sources is located in the file "internet.resources.earth.sci". This file contains more information on mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and geology, subjects which are mostly outside the scope of this meteorology-oriented FAQ. Mapping software and datasets are also available in this directory. Contact bthoen@csn.org (Bill Thoen) for more information. cspnsv.csp.it 5000 (Telnet) Include the "5000" when connecting to the machine. This runs a program, "METEO-WINDOW" on a Cray, with a remote graphics display on your machine. The first time, you will be asked to send mail to meteo-window@csp.it with the numerical address of your graphics terminal (must be running X-windows). METEO-WINDOW displays Meteosat satellite images and weather information of general interest (in English) and of the Piedmont, Italy region (in Italian). For more information contact Michele.Lionetti@csp.it. cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk [129.215.168.19] (FTP) Change directory to "images". IR and visible images of Europe from Meteosat, twice daily, in 1152 x 900 GIF format (size of Sun root window). Also Atlantic area and African images. The subdirectory "gifs" has smaller 3x daily images of the Nordic areas, the UK, and Europe. The directory "animations" contains movies in .fli and MPEG formats. Software to uncompress "gzip" files is here too. Info from gcw@met.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Watson) The directory "calmet" contains software and documents in support of computer-aided learning in meteorology; it is associated with the CALMET mailing list described in section IV of this document. The file "intro_to_calmet" in the "documents" subdirectory describes how to find what's available. diu.cms.udel.edu [128.175.24.6] (WWW, Gopher) OCEANIC, the Ocean Information Center, contains information about data collected for both the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). In addition OCEANIC has a searchable international research ship schedule database, a searchable directory of names/addresses/e-mail of scientists involved in WOCE and numerous links to WOCE data facilities and other oceanographic information systems. This system is still in an evolutionary phase but is for the most part fully functional. For more information, questions, comments, etc. please e-mail oceanic@diu.cms.udel.edu or call (302)645-4278. downdry.atmos.colostate.edu [129.82.107.154] (FTP) Atlantic basin tropical cyclone best track data, 1886-1992. Every 6 hour intensity and position information. README.atl is the documentation, tra86to92.atl is the data. Provided by landsea@downdry.atmos.colostate.edu (Chris Landsea). downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000 [141.212.196.177] (Telnet, Gopher) Include the "3000" when connecting to the machine. This is the University of Michigan's Weather Underground, a menu driven system which has a large variety of information, including US and Canadian weather forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, severe weather reports, and current weather conditions for some international cities. This machine is also accessible by gopher (omit the 3000 when connecting). The same information is available, along with other educationally-oriented information. duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com [131.131.7.106] (Telnet) This service is intended for pilots. You can log in as a guest by hitting return when asked for your as your pilot certification number, and entering N12345 when asked for your aircraft tail number. Various weather products are available including SA, UA, and severe weather info. Hit '?' for help whenever you are confused by a prompt. DUATS can also be accessed directly by 1-800-767-9989 at 9600 baud. early-bird.think.com [131.239.2.1] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/weather/maps. earthsun.umd.edu [132.178.15.9] (FTP) Change directory to "/JEI/GOES". 48-hour sequence derived from GOES IR images is in the file "storm.zip" which was compressed with PKZIP 2.04. It is a 640x480 .FLC file and thus requires either running the sequence on a UNIX box or on a DOS machine with a SVGA card that is moderately VESA compatible with 512K RAM. PLAY79.EXE (for DOS) is available on the same site; xanim (for Unix) is available from cs.orst.edu (/pub/src/printers/xanim/xanim.tar.Z) and other sites. (For more info contact Christopher Keane, keane@earthsun.umd.edu.) eosdis.larc.nasa.gov [192.107.191.17] (Telnet) The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and distributes Radiation Budget, Cloud, Aerosol, and Tropospheric Chemistry Data to the general science community. Data are available via FTP, tape and CD-ROM. Users can use telnet to the DAAC IMS (Information Management System) to place an order. The IMS features a graphical user interface, so you must have an X window or Sun OpenWindows display. (You can contact DAAC by telephone or email as well -- see section III.) Use 'ims' as the login and 'larcims' as the password. For more information contact Sue Sorlie (userserv@eosdis.larc.nasa.gov). esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov [140.90.235.10] (Telnet) Login as "NOAADIR". Menu-driven system will let you select datasets from various government sources according to search parameters, and will give you contact addresses and other information on them. You can also get information about satellites, sensors, and research experiments. esdim2.nodc.noaa.gov (Gopher) Appears to be a gopher connection to the same sort of thing as above; allows connections to various government agency info (NASA, NOAA, NIST, DOE, Dept. of Interior, EPA, USDA). explorer.arc.nasa.gov [128.102.32.18] (FTP) Visible and IR hourly GMS-4 images in gif format (neat pictures, may be enhanced), and in hdf format (raw, intended for research), in the directory "pub/Weather/GMS-4". Resolution is 5 km so images are 2-3 MB in size. The hdf files have navigation information included. The "pub/Weather/GOES-7" directory contains half-hourly visible and IR GOES-7 images in gif and hdf formats; the IR data is 8 km resolution and the VIS is a very large 4 km resolution. For more information contact medin@cincsac.arc.nasa.gov (Milo S. Medin). The directory "cdrom" contains Viking, Magellan, and Voyager data, and the directory "pub/SPACE" contains various earth-from-space images and information. This site is for users "near" California; East Coast US and European sites should connect instead to boa.gsfc.nasa.gov, and Australian sites should use plaza.aarnet.edu.au. (The GOES-7 data doesn't appear to be on these sites yet.) ftp.colorado.edu [128.138.129.2] (FTP) Change directory to "pub/weather-images". Weather radar summary map GIFS and PICT files, surface maps, satellite images for several US cities and regions. Also images and other stuff for Andrew in the subdirectory "hurricane.andrew". ftp.erc.msstate.edu (FTP) GRIB decode in C in "pub/griblib.tar.Z". ftp.jcu.edu.au [137.219.16.14] (FTP) Change directory to "JCUMetSat". GMS-4 images updated regularly for various Australian states, Australia as a whole, the globe, the TOGA/COARE area, and events of interest such as cyclones. The images are in a format designed for the package JCUMetSat on Amiga computers, but can be converted to GIF format using the ALCHEMY software (shareware) available at this site. (More information on the format and images can be obtained from Professor C.J. Kikkert, eecjk@marlin.jcu.edu.au.) ftp.met.fsu.edu [128.186.5.56] (FTP) This FTP site at Florida State University is mostly a repository for public domain software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric scientists. There are also Hurricane Andrew images in the directory "/pub/hurricane_Andrew". The file "internet.tex" in the "docs" directory contains an article by Jon Ahlquist about Internet resources for atmospheric scientists; this was published in the March 1993 Bulletin of the AMS, but the on-line version will be updated from time to time. For more information contact ahlquist@met.fsu.edu. ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (FTP) Code and software for HDF data format. ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov [192.149.148.109] (FTP) Some publically accessible data and tools from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center. Also, information on NGDC CD-ROM products. More information available from info@ngdc.noaa.gov This information is also available by NGDC's Gopher and WWW servers. ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk [134.36.22.15] (FTP, WWW) Dundee University archive of NOAA AVHRR / HRPT images of Europe for the last 15 years, with on-line access to lower resolution images (Quicklooks) for the last six months, and a full resolution data service on request. For information contact Alan Muir (asm@ua.ndu.ac.uk). ftp.uwp.edu [131.210.1.4] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx. ftpnssl.nssl.uoknor.edu (FTP) Change directory to "/pub/skaggs". Fortran program to calculate windchill and heat index based on NWS code, and to interconvert humidity variables based on Smithsonian Meteorological Tables. Also code to calculate sunrise and sunset. Questions to gary@skaggs.nssl.uoknor.edu. glis.cr.usgs.gov [152.61.192.54] (Telnet) This is a menu driven system (Global Land Information System) which allows users to search a list of research datasets available from the EROS Data Center at USGS, and order data if desired. Most of the data are ecosystem maps and elevation/depth maps. gopher.ciesin.org [160.39.1.202] (Gopher) (CIESIN-NASA-EOS Global Change Information Network) This gopher server has some papers on global change (not many yet). Under the "Environmental Internet Catalog" there are resources under various useful topics, particularly under "Earth Science", "Ecology and the Environment", and "Weather and Meteorology". It allows gopher access to some of the FTP and telnet resources described in this document. Comments should be sent to CIESIN.Info@ciesin.org. gopher.ncc.go.jp (Gopher) (National Cancer Center, Tokyo JAPAN) Select "Other-information" and then "weather". This is a joint system between the National Cancer Center and the Japanese Weather Association. Files are updated every 3 hours. gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov [192.149.148.109] (Gopher) (National Geophysical Data Center) Some publically accessible data and tools from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center. Also, information on NGDC CD-ROM products. Connections to other data services, NOAA environmental gopher, other gateways. (This service is still under developement.) More information available from info@ngdc.noaa.gov. gopher.ssec.wisc.edu (Gopher) (Space Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) This server currently offers near real-time daily browse GIF images from the GOES satellite and 8 Antarctic browse GIF images per day. The Antarctic browse (funded by NSF) is a composite of 5 geostationary and 2 polar satellites covering the area from 45 degrees south to the South Pole. General background information about McIDAS is also available. Some images from the new GOES-8 area also available. For information contact Steve Rader (rader@ssec.wisc.edu) gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov [192.133.17.165] (Gopher) (Arkansas-Red River Forecast Center) This server contains forecasts of river levels and flood stages for the mainstem rivers in the Arkansas-Red River Basin area (AR, CO, OK, LA, MO rivers). graupel.mit.edu (WWW) MIT Weather Radar Laboratory information under Radar_Lab.html. grizzly.uwyo.edu (Gopher) Weather satellite images and forecast model output, meteorgrams and some forecasts and observations for US states and regions. hanauma.stanford.edu [36.51.0.16] (FTP) The CIA World Bank database contains coastlines, rivers and political boundaries. An 0.5 degree elevation dataset is also there. A program for decoding the CIA data can be found as "mfil" on pi1.arc.umn.edu [137.66.130.11] (Info from ken@msc.edu) NOTE this site no longer exists. This information *may* be moved to oas.stanford.edu sometime in the future. I'll try to keep an eye on the situation. hermes.merit.edu [35.1.48.150] (Telnet) Type um-weather at the "Which Host?" prompt and use menus. (Connects to downwind.sprl.umich.edu) hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov [192.67.134.72] (FTP, Telnet) Information on datasets available from NCDC (the National Climatic Data Center) in "/pub/upload/inventories". These are inventories of the contents of various datasets. If you find this information useful, please send email to tross@ncdc.noaa.gov, as NCDC wants to evaluate this service. If you wish to order data after browsing this information, contact their customer service department at 704-271-4800. This site is also reachable by telnet using "storm" as the login and "research" as the password. Also available in the directory "/pub/upload/blizzard" is a file "storm.txt" containing observations from the 1993 "Storm of the Century." hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (FTP) Change directory to "data/noaa". NOAA quick look images of the area around Japan are recieved and processed by Takagi Laboratory in Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. The images are in Portable GrayMap file format(PGM), which can be easily converted to other image formats using `pbmplus' utilities. The mmddhhQL.pgm.Z files are images (mm=month, dd=day, hh=hour) of size 512x480. hydro.princeton.edu (FTP) Insolation calculation from Berger model and energy balance from Pease model in directory "stamm/energy.budget". Provided by John Stamm, jstamm@phoenix.Princeton.EDU. jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov (FTP) Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) ozone data. Change directory to /pub/nimbus-7 or /pub/meteor3. Read the README files in each directory and other text files...user is warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable for publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC. kestrel.umd.edu [129.2.110.31] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx. Also archives gifs and programs (not messages) from the Wxsat mailing list (see part 3 of this FAQ) in pub/wxsat. kuda.atd.ucar.edu [128.117.84.65] (Telnet) Log in as "kuda" with "science" as the password. This will put you into a database program which will allow you to select from many types of atmospheric measurements and supporting data from the Persian Gulf region during the Kuwait oil well fires (1991). Inventory includes aircraft measurements of particulates, chemistry, radiation, and state parameters, surface-based meteorological, air quality, and radiation measurements, model output grids, and digital satellite images from NOAA and DMSP polar orbiters. For more information, contact kudastaff@kuda.atd.ucar.edu, or Julie Haggerty at 303/497-1058. liasun3.epfl.ch (FTP) Change directory to "pub/weather". IR and visible images of Europe from Meteosat, in GIF format. It appears that this site contains the same images as cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk. life.anu.edu.au 80 (WWW) Australian National University Bioinformatics server. Connections to many weather resources worldwide on their very nice Weather Page (weather.html). Comments to David.Green@anu.edu.au. mcidas.uncc.edu (Gopher) UNC/Charlotte Earth Science server. MCIDAS images and many text products from the NWS for the Southeast US, including forecasts, climate summaries, air pollution, severe weather, precipitation. measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu 3000 (Telnet) Include the "3000" when connecting to the machine. This is a menu driven system which has a large variety of information, including US and Canadian weather forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, severe weather reports, and current weather conditions for some international cities. (Weather Underground at NCSU, similar to UM service.) meteor.atms.purdue.edu (Gopher) (Purdue University WXP Gopher) This gopher site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses, upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, and plots of the results from various NMC forecast models. A very nice feature of this gopher is the "plot summary" in each directory, which explains very clearly the meteorological usefulness and interpretation of the various plots. Questions and comments to devo@cell.atms.purdue.edu. metlab1.met.fsu.edu (Gopher) This gopher site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses, upper air analyses, soundings, and radar for the US (some Canadian plots), and text forecasts for Florida. The ftp site ftp.met.fsu.edu can be accessed via this site. nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov [192.42.70.2] (FTP) Various monthly mean data files, including ISCCP C2 cloud data, surface temperature anomalies, grids of various variables used in the GCM II (General Circ. Model). Also various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation indices, wetland ecosystems. The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index to the contents of this FTP area. Contact giss@nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov for help or more information. (Note: you will be asked for a password -- just enter your email address.) ncardata.ucar.edu [128.117.8.111] (FTP) Information on datasets available from NCAR (the National Center for Atmospheric Research), and a few small datasets. If you would like to order data after browsing this information, email to datahelp@ncar.ucar.edu. Small datasets can be provided by FTP; we also write various kinds of tapes. See the README file. The "pub/weather" subdirectory contains Colorado weather and (in season) ski condition reports. A few special datasets are located in the FTP area, and are free. They are described in the file "pricing". These include a 1 deg resolution elevation dataset, a continental outline dataset, and a list of all WMO stations with latitude, longitude, and elevation. This ftp area can also be accessed with a nifty hypertext interface via www.ucar.edu (WWW) by selecting "Research Data Archive". nevado.srcc.lsu.edu (Telnet, Gopher) The Southern Regional Climate Center operates a gopher and telnet site, with data mostly for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. There is some other US data available through the telnet site (login srcc). nic.fb4.noaa.gov (FTP) Selected monthly mean and anomaly fields [from the Climate Diagnostic Data Base (CDDB)] are in the directory "/pub/cac/cddb"; tropical indices are in the subdirectory "indice" within that directory. Text for the Climate Diagnostics Bulletin and ENSO Advisory is available in the directory "/pub/cac/nino". noaacdc.colorado.edu (WWW) The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time scales of months to centuries. CDC climatological data is archived in netCDF format. This site gives access to metadata (information about these datasets) which can be searched by various keywords; actual data must be ordered from CAC by email or fill-in forms. nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (FTP or Telnet) Telnet: The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) On-Line Data and Information Service (NODIS) is a menu-driven interactive system which provides information on services and data supported by NSSDC. Login as NSSDC. Some topics: Nimbus-7 GRID TOMS Data, Geophysical Models, Standards and Technology Information System. NODIS also provides access to the Global Change Master Directory, a multidisciplinary on-line information system containing descriptions of Earth and space science data holdings available to the science community. These include data from NASA, NOAA, NCAR, USGS, DOE (CDIAC), EPA, NSF and other U.S. and international agencies, universities, and research centers. FTP: some information and actual data is also available via anonymous FTP. For more information contact MDUSO@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV. nx1.soils.umn.edu [128.101.77.165] (Gopher) (MN Climatology Working Group) This gopher directory contains lots of files with climate data for Minnesota. Comments and questions to gopher-admin@soils.umn.edu. owl.nstn.ns.ca (Gopher) Canadian site for Canadian forecasts. photo1.si.edu [160.111.16.2] (FTP) Change directory to "/More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium" (case sensitive!). The subdirectory "weather.gif" has 640 X 480 X 256 GIF89a format (some older files in GIF87a) images from NOAA and Meteor polar orbiting weather satellites, maybe others. Images will remain here for a few weeks -- some of the more exceptional images will be placed in a longer-term archive under the subdirectory "/weather.archive". Files will be named sssdddd*.gif where sss is the spacecraft (e.g. N11= NOAA-11, M33=Meteor 3-3), dddd is the date, and * is a descriptor (see the readme information). HRPT visible and IR images of the recent California fires are available in the subdirectory "calif.disaster". The f1----.gif series is the Laguna fire, f2----.gif series is the Malibu fire, and the f3----.gif series is the Northridge fire. For more information, contact nasep007@sivm.si.edu (Geoff Chester). plaza.aarnet.edu.au [139.130.4.6] (FTP) Same GMS images as explorer.arc.nasa.gov, in the "weather" directory; this site should be used by Pacific sites only. quake.think.com [192.31.181.1] (WAIS) (Weather.src) Service: 210 Database: weather Currently you'll get the best results by asking this server for 'weather'. The returned list of files should include this file, as well as the day's satellite weather maps. You might want to refine your search by including "gif" if you'd rather get the maps, or "txt" if you want the textual weather forecasts. You can try by city name, too. Comments to weather-server@quake.think.com. rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu (WWW) This is the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's Climate Group's server. The "Data Library" contains various climatologies for the ocean and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice interactive system for selection and display of data. rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca (FTP) NOAA-11/12 mosaic GIF images of North America derived from HRPT (High Resolution Picture Transmission) data stream. Change directory to "/pub/sat_images". The images are 1280 x 1024 mosaics of successive passes of either NOAA-11 or NOAA-12 and cover an area from 40 deg W to 130 deg W and from 70 deg N to 20 deg N. At present, only images derived from Channel 4 are being posted. Four mosaics will be posted daily, named mmmdd_noaa##.TT.gif where ## is the satellite number (11 or 12) and TT is the time (am or pm). Images will remain accessible for two days. To assist in the interpretation of the images, coastlines, rivers and lakes have been superimposed. The resolution of the images has been reduced to approximately 4 km, but full resolution images of particular areas of interest may be available upon request. For information contact moore@rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca (Professor G.W.K. Moore). ridgisd.er.usgs.gov [130.11.48.107] (WAIS) (DOE_Climate_Data.src) Service: 210 Database: /usr/opt/wais/db/DOE_Climate_Data (NOAA_National_Environmental_Referral_Service.src) Service: 210 Database: /usr/opt/wais/db/nedres Contains information about various climate data sets. The maintainer is tgauslin@ridgisd.er.usgs.gov. sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu (Telnet) AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) images from 1989 through 7 Jan 1992 cover CO, WY, KS, NE, and NM, as well as parts of AZ, UT, OK, and TX. Since 7 Jan 1992, coverage includes these plus CA, OR, NV, WA, and MT, to 1000 km off Pacific coast. Total coverage of US for 1989-present will be available soon. West coast data from 1980-1985 will be available some time this year. Images are 1024 lines x 1024 elements before 7 Jan 1992, 2560 lines x 1024 elements after. Images are 1 km resolution and 8-bit format. Contact Tim Kelley by email kelley@sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu or telephone 303/497-1221 for login, password, and manual. Service is free to Internet users and is funded by NASA. satftp.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.154.29] (FTP) Sea-Surface-Temperature data (near-real-time) in the directory "pub/avhrr/images". AVHRR images within the radius of reception of the university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to 45 N and 125 W to 165 E, as well as other stations in the continental US. The processed images are available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-11 and NOAA-12 passages. GMS-4 images of the full GMS coverage area and over the TOGA-COARE area are available in /pub/GMS. Data are available in TDF format, PostScript, and GIF format, labelled by satellite name (n11/n12/g4) and time. Also see "pub/spectactular" directory for images of Hurricane Fernanda. This site concentrates on the generation of higher level products, calibrated in scientific units and registered, that can be used for time series analysis without having to deal with satellite geometries. More info available from sat_lab@soest.hawaii.edu. sci-ed.fit.edu (WWW) Pointers to weather related sites in wx.html. snow.nohrsc.nws.gov [192.46.108.1] (FTP) Various snow-related images in GIF format. US snow cover map updated weekly. JPEG of current AVHRR images. This site will be operational for the 1994 snow season from in December 1993 through June 1994. Also included are JPEG images of the east coast during the March 1993 blizzard, and of the midwest during the July 1993 flood. Contact tim@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov (Tim Szeliga) for more info. spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78] (FTP) Various USGS data in subdirectories under the directory "pub/map". srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov [130.11.51.209] (FTP) USGS streamflow data from the HCDN data set, 1874-1988 CD-ROM (see CD-ROM section) by Slack et al in the directory "hcdn92". sseop.jsc.nasa.gov [146.154.11.34] (FTP) Many pictures taken from the space shuttle. Files are in a 512x512 format as red, green, and blue bitmaps. Image files are binary format, and have .DAT as an extension. starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov (WWW) Access to various http (WWW) and telnet catalogs of data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. storm.ofps.ucar.edu [128.117.90.53] (Telnet) Hourly and 5-minute composite surface observations, and composite rawinsonde soundings, from STORM-FEST. Log in as "storm" with the password "research" to access a menu-driven system which will allow you to search for the data you want. You can also connect to the NCDC site hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov through these menus. (Contact Mark Bradford, bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu if you have questions.) sumex-aim.stanford.edu (FTP) Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93" in the file /pub/info-mac/art/qt/blizzard-of-93.hqx. (Binhexed file.) thunder.atms.purdue.edu (WWW) (Purdue University WXP Web site) This site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses, upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, and plots of the results from various NMC forecast models. The text on each page explains very clearly the meteorological usefulness and interpretation of the various plots. Questions and comments to devo@cell.atms.purdue.edu. tortel.dcc.uchile.cl [146.83.4.40] (Gopher, Telnet) (Universidad de Chile) Weather forecasts for Chile, in Spanish. Choose the menu items "Servicios Miscelaneos", then "Pronosticos Meteorologicos", and then "Informe Diario Direccion Meteorologica de Chile". For telnet access, log in as "gopher" (no password) and continue as above. unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3] (Gopher, FTP) FTP: Change directory to "images". Weather radar summary map GIFS, surface maps for various places, a few soundings on skew-t log-p diagrams, GOES Hugo images (in subdirectory "images/hugo"). Surface maps include Europe and China. uriacc.uri.edu [131.128.1.1] (FTP) Change directory to "davet.195". Images of the northeast US in GIF format from the afternoon passes of NOAA-11. (Provided by Dave Tetreault, DAVET@uriacc.uri.edu.) vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au 55555 [134.178.130.2] (Telnet) Include the 55555 when connecting to the machine. Australian weather observations and forecasts via a menu-driven system. vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98] (FTP) Information on WX-TALK and other mailing lists, companies that hire meteorologists, radio frequencies used to broadcast hurricane information, satellite reception, and other subjects. The images which used to be here are no longer here, but are available at other sites (see topic index). vortex.weather.brockport.edu 3000 (Telnet, gopher) Another weather underground. Other information available by gopher to the same site (omit the 3000). wais.cic.net [192.131.22.3] (WAIS) (midwest-weather.src) Service: 210 Database: midwest-weather National Weather Service forecasts for midwest U.S. states, updated hourly from the `gopher' weather server at the U of Minnesota by emv@cic.net. web.nexor.co.uk (WWW) Links to various European satellite photos (/places/satelite.html). westsat.com [192.215.1.50] (FTP) Full-disk GOES images in GIF format. Current pictures are in the directory "pub/images"; older pictures and more information are in "pub/west". Contact steve@netsys.com (Steve Eigsti) for info. Some of these images are now appearing in the new newsgroup biz.pagesat.weather. wilbur.stanford.edu [36.14.0.30] (FTP) Change directory to "pub/weathergifs". IR and visible images of Europe from Meteosat, in GIF format. It appears that this site contains the same images as cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk. Also has satellite images of US. wind.atmos.uah.edu 3000 [146.229.8.2] (Telnet) Include the 3000 when connecting to the machine. This is the University of Alabama at Huntsville's Weather Underground, a menu-driven system which has forecasts, climate data, and current observations for US cities, severe (US) weather, ski reports, and a "heating and cooling degree database". This Weather Underground also includes WXP so that X-windows users can have available weather maps displayed on their terminals. Comments and suggestions to root@wind.atmos.uah.edu. wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu [146.88.1.103] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx. wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in multimedia/images/wx. www.acm.uiuc.edu (WWW) Rob's Multimedia Lab has a weather page at weather.html. Movies of hurricane Emily, California fires images, local (mid-Atlantic) weather from other sites. www.atmos.uiuc.edu (WWW) The Daily Planet from the University of Illinois. Contains links to the U of I Weather Machine (gopher) as well as direct links to many of the same images: satellite images, surface and upper air, forecast model output, etc. This server also includes a very nice and comprehensive collection of MPEG movies based on the still images. They are updated hourly and they cover various time durations of up to over two days. Other available information includes a collection of lists of other weather servers and sources of weather data, atmospheric sciences community info, local information about the U of I atmospheric sciences department, and some online hypermedia instructional modules for atmospheric sciences. The administrative contact e-mail address for the server is: web-masters@www.atmos.uiuc.edu www.met.fu-berlin.de (WWW) Free University of Berlin Institute for Meteorology. Information is available in German or English. Includes local current weather, latest Meteosat photo, list of upcoming conferences, neatly-formatted and organized list of these weather resources. www.ngdc.noaa.gov [192.149.148.109] (WWW, Gopher, FTP) This site serves information about NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center. There are links to many NOAA data archives, including the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), Solar-Terrestrial Data from the World Data Center exchange program, Marine Geological & Geophysical Data, Solid Earth Geophysical Data, and Paleoclimatology Data. This site can also be accessed using Gopher or FTP. www.sat.dundee.ac.uk see ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk www.ucar.edu (WWW) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) http server (start at metapage.html). Select "Research Data Archive" to access the data archive; also contains other information about NCAR. Questions should be sent to gregmc@ncar.ucar.edu. www.mit.edu 8001 (WWW) Neat map interface to (text) weather reports and forecasts. Map shows current conditions. Appears to be western US only. wx.atmos.uiuc.edu [128.174.80.10] (Gopher) (UofI Weather Machine) Forecasts, images, surface and upper-air weather, local (Illinois) weather, and various useful documents, including GRIB and ON84 format descriptions, station lists, graphics information, etc. Questions, comments, and requests for changes should be sent to gopher@wx.atmos.uiuc.edu. wx.research.att.com [192.20.225.3] (FTP) Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in wx directory. --------------- Subject: How to use the data retrieval methods This section only describes FTP and telnet in any detail; for other methods, FTP sites are given, so you can get information on them yourself. 1) How to use FTP 2) How to use telnet 3) Gopher information 4) Wais information 5) WWW information 1. How to use FTP FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows transfer of files between two computers which are on the Internet. To access the FTP areas listed here, at your system prompt type "ftp" followed by the name of the desired system. For example, to access ncardata.ucar.edu you'd type ftp ncardata.ucar.edu Use "anonymous" as your login and your email address as the password (if requested). [Note: quotes ("like this") are used to set off names of directories and files, or commands you'd type, and are not part of these names.] Not all FTP systems accept the same commands, but here's a list of the most useful: ls list files in the current directory. cd change directory, e.g. "cd wx" changes to the wx directory. binary sets binary mode ascii sets ascii mode (the default). Use for retrieving text. get retrieves a file, e.g. "get readme" gets a file called readme. bye exits FTP. If you can't seem to connect to the site, check to see if it is a telnet site. If it is, follow the instructions in the following section instead. If you can't FTP from your site, use one of the following ftp-by-mail servers: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Send an e-mail message to the closest address, with the lines: reply your_address@some.where <- with your email address connect ncardata.ucar.edu <- for example cd datasets/ds111.2/software get access_sun.f quit For complete instructions, send a one-line message reading "help" to the server. Please don't ask me for help! 2. How to use telnet Type "telnet" followed by the name or IP number of the desired system. These publicly accessible systems generally allow you to log in but put you in a restricted shell, from which only a certain menu of commands is available. The description for the site will include the login to use. If you can't seem to connect to the site, re-check its description in the document; if it's an FTP site, follow the instructions in the previous section instead. 3. Gopher information Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq. 4. Wais information Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/wais-faq/getting-started. 5. WWW information Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq. WWW is so easy to use that you might as well just hop in and try it, so ask your sysadmin if you have a WWW browser such as NCSA Mosaic.